YoungUpstarts
MAY 12, 2016
If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, launching your startup will be everything you have ever dreamed of. You may look to Silicon Valley for inspiration, where hyped tech startups have investors vying to get their money in the stocks. If the startup you hope to launch is not a tech one, you may experience the opposite, where investors run away from your company.
OnlyOnce
MAY 12, 2016
Book Short: Scrum ptious . I just finished reading Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time , by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland. This reading was in anticipation of an Agile Facilitation training my executive team and I are going through next week, as part of Return Path’s Agile Everywhere initiative. But it’s a book I should’ve read along time ago, and a book that I enjoyed.
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ConversionXL
MAY 12, 2016
Why do the work when it’s already been done for? That’s the question business owners and marketers are asking before they hit “Purchase” on a $30 website template. Thousands, if not millions, of people turn to website templates to make the design process more efficient. But there’s something almost no one is talking about… Website templates are not optimized for conversions.
Steve Blank
MAY 12, 2016
We just held our sixth week of the Hacking for Defense class. Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) the teams are getting deep into problem understanding and their minimal viable products are getting sophisticated enough to generate detailed customer feedback; we gave them advice on how to “stand and deliver” in class; and our advanced lecture explained how to find and measure mission achievement.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
YoungUpstarts
MAY 12, 2016
by Kunal Desai is the founder and CEO of Bulls on Wall Street. A common mantra you hear from entrepreneurs is to keep business & friends separate. You hear messages like this repeated often: ‘friends and business don’t mix’, ‘money can ruin friendship’, ‘it’s not personal, it’s business.’ But, business is personal – it’s comprised of people! People always look at the disadvantages, but there are amazing advantages to working with your friends.
Steve Blank
MAY 12, 2016
We just held our sixth week of the Hacking for Defense class. Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) the teams are getting deep into problem understanding and their minimal viable products are getting sophisticated enough to generate detailed customer feedback; we gave them advice on how to “stand and deliver” in class; and our advanced lecture explained how to find and measure mission achievement.
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Version One Ventures
MAY 12, 2016
Six months ago, we published A Guide to Marketplaces. Marketplace companies comprise an important part of our portfolio and investment thesis and we recognized the shortage of content out there specifically geared toward marketplace startups. We compiled a lot of the insights we learned from working with great marketplace companies and wrote a handbook.
Berkonomics
MAY 12, 2016
Dave’s Note: Our special guest author this week is Kelly Graham from Decision Toolbox, Inc. You’ll enjoy her take on one of the basic issues of our business-personal lives… By Kelly Graham. Finding work–life balance is one of the most abused clichés in business today. Why? Because there is no such thing as work–life balance in corporate America today.
YFS Magazine
MAY 12, 2016
It’s not enough to just have a social media account these days. You have to learn to leverage the platform and connect with your fans so that they become loyal customers.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 12, 2016
Fresh off a week of vacation, I’m rolling into the annual joyful madness that is Boulder Startup Week. If you don’t know the history of Startup Week (now owned by Techstars), it was founded by Andrew Hyde in Boulder in 2010 and subsequently begat the overall Startup Week program (powered by Chase) happening all over the world. The schedule begins Monday morning (5/16) and continues through Friday night (5/20).
SiliconHills
MAY 12, 2016
In a standing room only theater, a dozen Austin startups, ranging from emerging companies to bigger ventures, received awards Wednesday night as part of the Austin A-List of the Hottest Startups. The Austin Chamber, through its Innovate Austin initiative, and South by Southwest Interactive put the event on every year at ACL Live at the […] The post 12 Startups Named to 2016 Austin A-List appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 12, 2016
Brand is on my mind this morning. Mat Braddy, formerly CMO of Just Eat and now founder of Rock Pamper Scissors gave a great talk on building challenger brands at our FP Live last night and this morning I read OpenView’s brilliant teardown of how they re-invented their brand. OpenView are one of my favourite venture capital funds, largely because they are one a small number of VCs globally pioneering a similar model to Forward Partners.
SiliconHills
MAY 12, 2016
At the Austin A-List awards ceremony Wednesday night, the organizers chose to honor Isabella Rose Taylor as its entrepreneurial rising star. Taylor, 15, is from Austin and is one of the world’s youngest fashion designers and artists. “I really got into fashion through my art,” Taylor said. “I’ve been selling my art since before I […] The post Isabella Rose Taylor Named Austin A-List Rising Star appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
MAY 12, 2016
Many companies are so focused on innovation, sales or productivity that they forget about the people who make it happen.
Guy Nirpaz
MAY 12, 2016
I’ve spent some time yesterday at a customer success bootcamp with one of my favorite customers. The leaders have decided to spend two full days with the team in order to build alignment within the team with regards to customer success. This is a company that one of it’s core values is: “Customer Centricity” As a customer centric company, is the mission statement of customer success should be about customer love – making sure customers love the company, it’s p
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 12, 2016
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for koorolexx. Check out more great work on koorolexx’s profile page. Nicely done, koorolexx, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: uniquemind. Fresh from the SPRING: ReesQ.
Austin Startup
MAY 12, 2016
May 16, 2016: This past Thursday I was in Atlanta for the annual ATDC Showcase, a crowded event where I ran into many friends. Even though… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 12, 2016
10 Useful Tools for Email Marketers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Pixabay. Email marketing is not dead. While the technologies and rules have changed from 10 years ago, email marketing is still a highly effective medium for communicating your brand’s message via the internet. Research indicates that 91% of consumers check their emails at least once a day and 44% of email recipients made a purchase last year based on a promotional email.
Austin Startup
MAY 12, 2016
Every leader has a signature move or a couple of plays in their playbook they use time and time again. I have many, but only one that is… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Street Smart Product Manager
MAY 12, 2016
Have you ever felt like there is no clear direction for your product? That you keep getting jerked around building features to satisfy the latest customer opportunity? That your product can do a lot of things, but it’s hard to articulate exactly what it does in just a few short sentences? Maybe your product is trying […]. The post The Most Important Thing You Need For Your Product To Succeed appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
VC Cafe
MAY 12, 2016
Image credit: Kosher OC Magazine. Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. The ranking was put together by soliciting feedback from some of Israel’s top venture funds, including Carmel Ventures, Aleph, 83 North, Magma, Battery Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Marker and others.
Street Smart Product Manager
MAY 12, 2016
Have you ever felt like there is no clear direction for your product? That you keep getting jerked around building features to satisfy the latest customer opportunity? That your product can do a lot of things, but it’s hard to articulate exactly what it does in just a few short sentences? Maybe your product is trying […]. The post The most important thing you need for your product to succeed appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
Up and Running
MAY 12, 2016
Boosting sales in your coffee shop isn’t just down to being aware of the latest trends, like gourmet coffee and healthier snacks. It’s about being clued-in to key strategies that have been proven to boost revenue. From putting the focus on more expensive “special drinks” to adding branded merchandise to your cafe, there are a number of things you can do to stand out, attract new customers, and keep the old ones coming back time after time. 1.
For Entrepreneurs
MAY 12, 2016
As every SaaS entrepreneur knows, churn is one of the single most important metrics in determining the day to day health of the business. Acquiring new customers is time and capital intensive, and this growth is meaningless if those customers do not stay. Despite the importance of this metric, measuring, tracking and benchmarking churn often.
YFS Magazine
MAY 12, 2016
Let’s look a little more closely at what the man who wrote the book on deal-making can teach us about the art of teamwork -- and especially the reboot.
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